• From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• To: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:08:02 +0000

Michael Kay wrote:

> Being too careful can make things worse, because the longer and more 
> formal the spec, the fewer people will read it.

Apparently the W3C does not agree.  Consider:

      - The XML Schema 1.1 specification is 380 pages
         and  is formally written.

      - The XSLT 3.0 specification is 530 pages
        and  is formally written.


/Roger

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